Abbaye de Creteil, 303-4 Acton, Lord, 328 Addison, J., relation of, to Romanticists, 70-1; 68, 76, 82 _Agnes de Castro_, by Catharine Trotter, 43-5 Akenside, 74 Allard-Méeus, J., 273 _Alroy_, by B. Disraeli, 161 American criticism, and Edgar Allan Poe, 104, 105 Anne, Queen, 58 _Annabel Lee_, by E.A. Poe, 103, 112 Argyll, Duke of, 320 Ariosto, 84, 85 Arnauld, Angelique, 39 Arnold, M., 3, 68, 71, 133, 267 Arnold, Dr. T., Mr. Strachey's portrait of, 326-7 Asquith, Mr., Romanes lecture of, 332-5 Bacon, 17 Bagehot, W., 96 Balfour, A.J., _re_ standards of taste, 4, 5, 10 Ballenden, Sarah, 40 Baring, M., poems of, 265, 273-5 Barrie, Sir J., 100 Barry, Mrs., 57 Batsford, Lord Redesdale at, 217-8, 222, 224-8, 229 Baudelaire, 106 Bayle, 59 Behn, Aphra, 39 Bell, T., of Selborne, 182 Berkeley, 98 Betterton, 48, 57 Birch, Rev. Dr., 61 Blake, W., 5, 90 Blessington, Lady, 131 Boileau, 70, 77, 82 Booth, 57 Bottomley, G., 262 Bridges, R., War poetry of, 161; 110 de Brillac, Mlle., 44 Brontë, Charlotte, dislike of Dewsbury, 142-3; message of, arose from pain and resistance, 144; her unhappiness, its causes, 145-6; defiance the note of her writings, 146-50 Brontë, Emily, 149 Brontës, The Challenge of the, address delivered on, 141-50; their connexion with Dewsbury, 141-2 Brooke, Rupert, poems of, 268-70 Browning, R., 9, 81, 132 Brunetière, 7 Bruxambille, 95 Bryant, 107, 108 Bulwer-Lytton, E., ambiguity of his position in literature, 117; R. Lytton's biography, 118, 121; Lord Lytton's biography, 117, 118-9, 120, 122, 129, 130, 131, 133, 137; autobiography, 119-20; story of matrimonial troubles, 121-9; character, 129-30; acquaintances and friends, 130-2; relations with contemporary writers and poets, 132-4; stormy life, 134; unfavourable attitude of critics towards, 134-5; popularity of his writings, 135-6; versatility and merits, 136-7; 178 Bulwer-Lytton, Mrs., opposition to Bulwer-Lytton's marriage, 124-7 Burghclere, Lady, open letter to, on Lady D. Nevill, 181-96 Burnet, George, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60 Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop, patron of the Trotters, 41, 52, 53 Burnet, Mrs., 52, 53 Burney, Dr., 33 Burton, 96 Byron, 76, 104, 108, 148, 161-2